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In a row famous families Rockefellers occupy a special place. While others have lost their money or influence, the Rockefellers continue to hold on to their vast empire.

The Rockefellers mostly immigrated to the US from Germany in the 1720s.

The surname was originally pronounced "Rockenfeller".

John Davison Rockefeller was born in 1839

His father worked odd jobs; In 1832 the family moved to Cleveland.

John's finest hour came during the Civil War

At the age of 20, he formed his own manufacturing business partnership, and with the proceeds from selling food to the Allied forces, he made a fortune. By the end of the war, he had earned $250,000.

The end of the war coincided with the beginning of the oil boom in the country

Cleveland has become a major logistics hub. John was not committed to the fruit and vegetable trade, and in 1865 he cashed out his interest in the partnership to invest in the oil refining industry.

The business grew, and in 1870 John consolidated his holdings in Standard Oil.

The company was worth one million dollars when it was founded.

It was largest company in the country.

The real breakthrough for Standard Oil was the so-called. recoil scheme

Competition for traffic between railways was cruel. So in 1872, John Rockefeller, along with like-minded people, creates the Southern Improvement Company in order to crush the small oil refining business by undermining their activities at the expense of railroad tariffs.

The scheme proved infamously effective and led to what became known as the Cleveland Massacre.

When things finally settled down, Standard Oil owned 22 of Cleveland's 26 refineries.

September 18, 1873: "Black Thursday" leads to a worldwide 6-year depression. But not for Standard

The company takes over oil refineries from the Allegheny Mountains to New York.

At the age of 38, Rockefeller controls almost 90 percent of the country's oil refinery capacity.

In 1879, he is among the 20 richest people in the country.

In 1883, John Rockefeller and his family decided to move to New York.

The headquarters for the Standard was built in the center of Broadway. Initially, the building had only 9 floors.

Rebuilt in the 1920s, it remains known as the Standard Oil Building to this day.

In the 1880s, Rockefeller consolidated his power in the country and in the world.

And according to the scandalous journalist Ida Tarbell, in order to strengthen his power, he terrorizes competitors.

A letter she found from a small manufacturer describes how a representative of Standard Oil " chased him for about two days«, « threatened in every possible way" and " talked to the household while I was gone«.

After all, the country was fed up with Rockefeller. In 1890, Congress passed the Sherman Act.

The law remains in force today.

Led by President Roosevelt, the government filed at least three lawsuits against Standard.

Oddly enough, the government only enriched John D. Rockefeller even more.

The sale of Standard's assets brought him a net income of $900 million.

Rockefeller lived to be 98 years old.

He is considered the richest man in US history.

John Rockefeller had only one son, John Jr.

But there were also four daughters - and in the first half of the 20th century, the list of family achievements increased dramatically.

John Jr. opened an oil company, but then went into real estate.

In 1930, he invested $250 million to build Rockefeller Center. It was completed in 1939 and became the largest private commercial development at the time.

Also, in 1930, John Jr. became the largest co-owner of Chase Bank.

The bank purchased his company Equitable Trust, which has since become associated with the bank's name. Later, the son of John Jr. for 11 years will CEO Chase bank. David turns 98 this June.

After World War II, the Rockefellers donated $8.5 million worth of land that became home to the United Nations.

The land was declared an international territory.

After John Jr., the next head of the Rockefeller family was his other son, Nelson.

He entered politics in early age, and by the age of 36 was appointed assistant secretary of state for relations with Latin America.

In 1958, he ran for governor of New York.

Defeating his rival Averill Harriman, he would serve four terms in office until 1973.

Meanwhile, Nelson's brother, John III, donated $175 million to build Lincoln Center.

which was completed in 1966.

Nelson died in 1979 of a heart attack.

The circumstances of the incident were somewhat ... piquant ... since at the time of the attack he was visiting a 25-year-old lady named Megan Marshak.

The most famous Rockefeller today is Senator Jay Rockefeller.

You may also have heard of ExxonMobil.

She is the successor to Standard Oil.

In 2011, it was the largest company in the world in terms of revenue.

http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/es/49280/ROCKEFELLERS: "(Rockefeller), a US financial group. Formed at the end of the 19th century. Its founder is J. D. Rockefeller Sr. (1839-1937) The industrial core is the oil company Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) (since 1973 Exxon), the financial center is the Chase Manhattan Bank Sphere of influence: industry (electrical engineering, mechanical engineering) and credit and financial institutions, life insurance. Since the 1980s, the role of the group has diminished and much of the property it controls has been sold. Of the Rockefeller family, the best known are J. D. Rockefeller Sr.'s son John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (1874-1960; York and built the Rockefeller Center), his sons - John Davison III (1906-1978; contributed to the founding of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts), Nelson Aldrich (1908-1979; US Vice President in 1974-77).

Daughter Anna was given at the age of 18 to marry younger son French king (1785-1760). As a dowry, he received the kingdom of Poland and was crowned under the name of Sigismund (1803). During the birth of her daughter (1804-1901), Anna Ivanovna died. The second daughter Sophia was given in marriage to a widower, and as a dowry he received the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1805) under the name of Vitovt. Sofya Ivanovna gave birth to her husband an heir (1806-1824), on the date of which the chronology is kept (Christ (0-33) is one of his images).

Sophia hated her relatives. She did not have a relationship with her stepmother. She considered her younger brother guilty of the death of her mother. She did not recognize children from her stepmother, tk. her mother was higher in social status than her stepmother. She hated her father for her mother's betrayal.

In 1812, Ivan Vasilyevich was poisoned by order of his daughter and son-in-law, and the World War. In 1813, Alexei Ivanovich died in the battle on the Kosovo field in Serbia, in 1814 Semyon Ivanovich became the Russian Tsar, who in 1829. As a result, power went to the Romanov clan.

The usurper had an older brother (1783-1868), he had a wife (1783-1871), his wife had elder sister(1780-1844), married to the Polish nobleman Poniatowski (1783-1834). After the death of the heir of the Usurper in 1824, Poniatowski seized power in the empire. In 1834 he was killed by a relative of the Usurper (1782-1836), who briefly outlived him. In the end, the Romanov clan divided power.

And here are other images of John Rockefeller:

Images of his son:

Http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/es/49280/ROCKEFELLERS: "(Rockefeller), a US financial group. Formed at the end of the 19th century. Its founder is J. D. Rockefeller Sr. (1839-1937) The industrial core is the oil company Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) (since 1973 Exxon), the financial center is the Chase Manhattan Bank Sphere of influence: industry (electrical engineering, mechanical engineering) and credit and financial institutions, life insurance. Since the 1980s, the role of the group has diminished and much of the property it controls has been sold. Of the Rockefeller family, the best known are J. D. Rockefeller Sr.'s son John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (1874-1960; York and built the Rockefeller Center), his sons - John Davison III (1906-1978; contributed to the founding of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts), Nelson Aldrich (1908-1979; US Vice President in 1974-77).

Wikipedia: "John Davison Rockefeller (English John Davison Rockefeller; July 8, 1839, Richford, New York - May 23, 1937, Ormond Beach, Florida) American entrepreneur, philanthropist, the first dollar billionaire in the history of mankind. He had four daughters and one son, who inherited the management of the Rockefeller Foundation. Rockefeller was the second of six children in a Protestant family, William Avery Rockefeller (October 13, 1810 - May 11, 1906) and Louise Celanto (September 12, 1813 - March 28, 1889). Maybe this is a coincidence, but if the name Rockefeller (Rockefeller) is divided into two parts and translated separately from of English language into Russian, it will turn out - "rock" - rock, stone and "felller" - lumberjack, woodcutter. And as you know from the biography of John Rockefeller, the father of the future millionaire William Avery Rockefeller was first a lumberjack, engaged in logging.

According to traditional history, the Rockefellers are the embodiment of the American dream: the father was a lumberjack, and the son became the richest man in the world.

Within the framework of my version of world history, everything is more prosaic and began in Russia.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Russian Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich (1761-1812) ruled the world. His 1st wife (married in 1783) Greek princess Irina Konstantinovna (1766-1789) bore him three children: Anna (1785-1804), Sophia (1787-1881) and Alexei (1789-1813). 2nd wife (marriage 1790) - the daughter of the Crimean Khan gave birth to the second heir, Semyon (1791-1829).

Daughter Anna was given at the age of 18 to marry the youngest son of the French king (1785-1760). As a dowry, he received the kingdom of Poland and was crowned under the name of Sigismund (1803). During the birth of her daughter (1804-1901), Anna Ivanovna died. The second daughter Anna was given in marriage to a widower, and as a dowry he received the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1805) under the name of Vitovt. Sofia Ivanovna gave birth to her husband an heir (1806-1824), on the date of which the chronology is kept (Christ (0-33) is one of his images).

Sophia hated her relatives. She did not have a relationship with her stepmother. She considered her younger brother guilty of the death of her mother. She did not recognize children from her stepmother, tk. her mother was higher in social status than her stepmother.

In 1812, Ivan Vasilyevich was poisoned on the orders of his daughter and son-in-law, and a world war began. In 1813, Alexei Ivanovich died in the Battle of Kosovo in Serbia, in 1814 Semyon Ivanovich became the Russian Tsar, who in 1829 died during the storming of Constantinople by the troops of the usurper.
As a result, power went to the Romanov clan. The usurper had an older brother (1783-1868), he had a wife (1783-1871), his wife had an older sister (1780-1844), married to the Polish nobleman Poniatowski (1783-1834). After the death of the heir of the Usurper in 1824, Poniatowski seized power in the empire. In 1834 he was killed by a relative of the Usurper (1782-1836), who briefly outlived him. In the end, the Romanov clan divided power.

J. D. Rockefeller Sr. (1839-1937) is one of the images of the son of the elder brother of the Usurper.

Images of the elder brother of the usurper and his wife:

Jerome (Jerome, Girolamo) Bonaparte (fr. J; r; me Bonaparte, Italian. Girolamo Buonaparte, November 15, 1784, Ajaccio - June 24, 1860) - King of Westphalia, younger brother of Napoleon I Bonaparte; brought up in a military college; after 18 Brumaire he entered the fleet as a lieutenant.

Friederike Catherine Sophia Dorothea of ​​Württemberg (German Friederike Katharina Sophie Dorothea von W;rttemberg; February 21, 1783 - November 29, 1835) - Princess of Württemberg, Queen of Westphalia, second wife of King Jerome Bonaparte of Westphalia, younger brother of Napoleon I.

Karl of Prussia (Friedrich Karl Alexander of Prussia, German Friedrich Carl Alexander von Preu; en; June 29, 1801 - January 21, 1883) - Prince of Prussia, Colonel General with the rank of Prussian Field Marshal General (February 5, 1857).

Maria of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (German: Maria von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach), at birth - Maria Louise Alexandrina (German: Maria Luise Alexandrina; February 3, 1808 - January 18, 1877) - Princess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, married - Princess of Prussia, granddaughter of Emperor Paul I.

Willem II, Wilhelm II (Dutch. Willem II, German Wilhelm II., French Guillaume II), Willem Frederik Georg Lodewijk (Dutch. Willem Frederik George Lodewijk; December 6, 1792 - March 17, 1849) - King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from October 7, 1840, Duke of Limburg. Eldest son and successor of King Willem I.

Anna Pavlovna (January 7 (18), 1795, St. Petersburg - March 1 (13), 1865, The Hague) - the daughter of Pavel I Petrovich and Maria Feodorovna. Queen of the Netherlands and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg 1840-1849.

And here are other images of Rockefeller:

Henry of Orange-Nassau ((Dutch. Hendrik van Oranje-Nassau) at birth Willem Frederik Henry of Orange-Nassau (Dutch. Willem Frederik Hendrik van Oranje-Nassau), July 13, 1820, Soestdijk Palace, Barn, Netherlands - January 14, 1879, Castle Walferdeng, Luxembourg) - Prince of the Netherlands and Orange-Nassau, second son of King Willem II and Anna Pavlovna, governor of Luxembourg.

Henry Ford (eng. Henry Ford; July 30, 1863 - April 7, 1947) - American industrialist, owner of car factories around the world, inventor, author of 161 US patents.

I think, a real man lived 1819-1919.

Images of his son:

Wikipedia: "John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. (English John Davison Rockefeller, Jr.; January 29, 1874, Cleveland, Ohio - May 11, 1960, Tucson, Arizona) - major philanthropist and one of the key members of the prominent Rockefeller family. The only son businessman and Standard Oil owner John D. Rockefeller and father of the five famous Rockefeller brothers.

Edsel Bryant Ford (Eng. Edsel Bryant Ford; November 6, 1893 - May 26, 1943) - son of Henry Ford, president of the Ford Motor Company from 1919 to 1943.

Light American dream was conquered in bloody battles in Russia.

In the photo: J. D. Rockefeller Sr. with his son, Edsel Bryant Ford,
Henry Ford, J. D. Rockefeller Sr., Henry of Orange-Nassau.

It is believed that nature rests on children, and the sons and daughters of rich people, spoiled by luxury in childhood, easily spit family capital. There is a lot of evidence for this. Just look at the Vanderbilts, the Carnegies, the Astors. A century ago, these surnames were synonymous with the concept of "supercapital", but today there is nothing left of the once multi-million dollar fortunes. However, there are also exceptions. The Rockefeller family is one of them.

The first official dollar billionaire in the history of mankind, John D. Rockefeller left behind big family. Today it unites more than 200 members. The heirs of John and his wife, Laura Shelman Rockefeller, have retained substantial capital: in 2016, their fortune was estimated at $ 11 billion.

The Rockefellers have another wealth - surprisingly warm family relations, without public scandals, lawsuits and tragedies, typical of most dynasties.

In a recent interview with CNBC, David Rockefeller Jr., chairman of Rockefeller & Co., revealed family secrets that helped keep the Rockefellers rich and close at the same time. They are applicable to any families who wish to keep warm relationship despite all the financial storms.

1. Have more family get-togethers

They help you feel like part of a larger whole. And children get used to the fact that their inner circle includes not only parents, but also uncles, aunts, cousins, cousins, common grandfathers and grandmothers. On the one hand, they are native, cheerful and understandable, and on the other hand, they are successful and famous. This is a good role model, which helps to realize that success is within easy reach.

We do family meetings Twice a year. Often more than 100 family members are in the same room, attending, for example, a Christmas dinner.

David Rockefeller Jr.

And this is not all the family gatherings that the Rockefellers practice. In addition to common dinners, relatives regularly hold events called family forums. Every member of the family who is 21 years of age is invited to attend. During these meetings, relatives tell each other about new projects and business ideas that have arisen, share news from the lives of children, report on upcoming and expected replenishment, and discuss education and career opportunities.

Such family forums are a place where everything is visible and everyone can trust each other. “It makes each of us feel like part of a family,” sums up David Rockefeller Jr.

2. Keep family history to keep the connection between generations

In part, the Rockefellers implement this principle through family estates, where family members can come at any time to communicate with their past.

“These are the houses where our family grew up from generation to generation. I can go back to the place where my great-grandfather lived 100 years ago. There's a lot left untouched. I go into his room, into his office, walk along the paths he used to walk. I see how he lived, in what conditions his children grew up, what toys his grandchildren played with when they came here for the holidays. This makes it possible to feel keenly the connection that exists between all of us,” says David.

By the way, each Rockefeller thoroughly knows his own. It also enhances family attraction.

3. Let kids be independent

Rockefeller also considers the absence of such a phenomenon as an important principle of success as family business. In 1911, the first and only common family company, Standard Oil, at the request of the US government, was divided into small firms, which were taken over by John's children and grandchildren.

I think we're lucky in that. We did not have a common cause in which everyone would start pulling the blanket over themselves. Thanks to this, we managed not to quarrel over business.

David Rockefeller Jr.

The division of business is practiced to this day. When the next generation of children grows up, parents do not mold them into continuers of the family business. Every child knows that he can choose any area for self-realization and start something new. A large family will unconditionally support him in this.

4. Explain the importance of lending a shoulder to those who need help.

The stronger and richer you are, the more you should invest in helping others. This Rockefeller family principle has been around for over 100 years.

On a marble stone in the colossal Rockefeller Center in New York, the words were carved, which contained the credo of the patriarch - John D. Rockefeller:

I believe that every right implies responsibility; every opportunity is a duty; every possession is a duty.

David Rockefeller Jr. operates with slightly different words: "To whom much is given, much is required of him." Every child in the Rockefeller family knows this phrase about responsibility and duty to help those in need. Children from an early age are attracted to. For example, David himself made his first conscious donation at the age of 10. And he continues to be a philanthropist.

In total, the family's charitable foundations (Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund and David Rockefeller Fund) have approximately $ 5 billion at their disposal.

January 29, 1874, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. was born - an American oilman, financier, son of the first billionaire in history and the man thanks to whom the Rockefellers became a legendary dynasty.

The surname Rockefeller and the word "wealth" are synonymous. According to well-known political scientist Nikolai Zlobin, the Rockefellers are icons of American economic and political culture, symbols of America's golden age. But the dynasty is gradually losing its status - there are more and more relatives, and billions are concentrated in other hands. Nevertheless, the Rockefellers still exist. “Members of this family influence, firstly, the general mood of the American political establishment,” Zlobin notes. “There are a lot of their representatives among large law firms, lobbying firms, in the media, military structures. not what it once was."

"RG" has collected the most Interesting Facts from the life of the famous dynasty.

1. Horse thief grandfather

The father of the first billionaire in history, William Rockefeller, was born in 1810. Officially, he was engaged in the sale of medicines. However, he was not an ordinary pharmacist, did not have a special education and traded drugs, collaborating with various healers. William traveled the northeastern United States selling suspicious medicinal potions. In 1849, when John Rockefeller, William's son, was 10 years old, the family urgently had to change their place of residence, and the move was like an escape. The reason for it, as evidenced by the documents, was very weighty - William Rockefeller was accused of horse stealing.

2. Marry a deaf-mute

mother richest man in the world was Eliza Davison. When she first saw William, who, participating in another fraud, posed as a deaf-mute, she exclaimed: "I would marry this man if he were not deaf-mute!" William quickly realized that this was a profitable party - his father gave Eliza $ 500 dowry. Soon they got married, and two years later John Rockefeller Sr. was born.

Eliza did not part with her husband, finding out that he not only hears everything perfectly, but, on occasion, swears no worse than a drunken lumberjack. She did not leave her husband even when he brought his mistress Nancy Brown into the house, and she - in turn with Eliza - began to give birth to William's children.

My husband went to work at night. He disappeared into the darkness, without explaining where and why he was going, and returned a few months later at dawn - Eliza woke up from the sound of a pebble hitting the window pane. She ran out of the house, threw back the bolt, opened the gate, and her husband drove into the yard - on a new horse, in a new suit, and sometimes with diamonds on his fingers. A handsome man made good money: he took prizes at shooting competitions, he briskly traded glass under the sign "The world's best emeralds from Golconda!" and successfully posed as a famous herbal doctor. Neighbors called him Bill the Devil: some considered William a professional player, others considered him a bandit.

After several years of wandering life, the Rockefeller family finally settled in Cleveland, but not because Big Bill - as William Rockefeller was nicknamed among horse dealers - settled down. Just one fine day in 1855, he left for an unknown destination, marrying a certain Margaret, a very young girl who knew him as Dr. William Livingston.

3. Business from the cradle

“From a young age, my mother and priest inspired me to work and save,” recalled John Rockefeller. Doing “business” was part of family education. Even in early childhood, John bought a pound of sweets, divided it into small piles and sold it at a premium to his own sisters. At the age of seven, he sold the turkeys he had grown to his neighbors, and he lent the $50 he earned from this to a neighbor at 7% per annum.

“He was a very quiet boy,” one of the townspeople recalled many years later, “he always thought.” From the outside, John looked distracted: it seemed that the child was constantly struggling with some insoluble problem. The impression was deceptive - the boy had a tenacious memory , grip and unshakable calmness: playing checkers, he harassed his partners, thinking for half an hour about each move.

At the same time, he was a sensitive boy: when his sister died, John ran into the backyard, threw himself on the ground, and lay there all day. Yes, and having matured, Rockefeller did not become such a monster as he was sometimes portrayed: once he asked about a classmate whom he once liked and, having learned that she was a widow and in poverty, the owner of Standard Oil immediately assigned her a pension.

4. Paid too much

John Rockefeller never graduated from high school. At 16, with a three-month accounting course under his belt, he began looking for work in Cleveland, where his family then lived. Six weeks later, he took a job as an assistant accountant at the Hewitt & Tuttle trading company.

At first he was paid 17 dollars a month, and then - 25. When receiving them, John felt guilty, finding the reward excessively high. In order not to waste a single cent, the thrifty Rockefeller bought a small ledger from his first salary, where he wrote down all his expenses, and carefully kept it all his life. As for work, it was his only job for hire. At the age of 18, John D. Rockefeller became the junior partner of businessman Maurice Clark.

Helped a new company to get on its feet Civil War 1861-1865. The warring armies paid generously for provisions, and partners supplied them with flour, pork and salt. By the end of the war in Pennsylvania, near Cleveland, oil was discovered, and the city was at the center of an oil rush. By 1864, Clark and Rockefeller were already in full swing with Pennsylvania oil. A year later, Rockefeller decided to focus only on oil, but Clark was against it. Then, for $72,500, John bought his share from a partner and plunged headlong into the oil business.

5. Oil at any cost

In 1870, Rockefeller created his famous "Standard Oil". Together with his friend and business partner Henry Flagler, he began to gather disparate oil producing and oil refining enterprises into a single powerful trust. Competitors could not resist him, Rockefeller put them before a choice: unification or ruin. If beliefs did not work, the most severe methods were used. For example, "Standard Oil" reduced prices in the local market of a competitor, forcing him to work at a loss. Or Rockefeller sought to stop the supply of oil to recalcitrant refiners.

By 1879, the "war of conquest" was virtually over. The Rockefeller company controlled 90% of the oil refining capacity in the United States. But in 1890, the Sherman antitrust law was passed, aimed at combating monopolies. Until 1911, Rockefeller and his partner managed to circumvent this law, however then Standard Oil was divided into thirty-four companies (virtually all of today's major American oil companies trace their history back to Standard Oil).

6. "Salary" for a fly

Rockefeller was married to Laura Celestina Spelman. He once remarked: "Without her advice, I would have remained a poor man."

Biographers write that Rockefeller did his best to teach children to work, modesty and unpretentiousness. John created a model of a market economy at home: he appointed his daughter Laura as a "director" and ordered the children to keep detailed ledgers. Each child received a few cents for killing a fly, for sharpening a pencil, for an hour of music lessons, for a day of the children had their own garden bed, where the weed work also had its price.

7. Owner of factories, ships, groves

In 1917, the personal fortune of John Rockefeller was estimated at 900-1200 million dollars, which was 2.5% of the then GDP of the United States. In the modern equivalent, Rockefeller owned approximately $150 billion - he is still the richest of people. By the end of his life, Rockefeller, in addition to shares in each of the 34 Standard Oil subsidiaries, owned 16 railroad and six steel companies, nine banks, six shipping companies, nine real estate firms and three orange groves.

Rockefeller's charitable donations during his lifetime exceeded $500 million. Of these, about 80 million dollars were received by the University of Chicago, at least 100 million - by the Baptist church, of which he and his wife were parishioners. John Rockefeller also created and funded the New York Institute for Medical Research, the Council for General Education and the Rockefeller Foundation.

8. Business at war

The new head of the dynasty - John D. Rockefeller II (junior) turned out to be a worthy son of his father. The First World War brought the Rockefeller family 500 million dollars in net profit. The Second World War turned out to be an even more profitable enterprise - tank and aircraft engines required gasoline, and it was produced at the Rockefeller factories around the clock. The result was 2 billion dollars of net profit received during the war years.

Rockefeller Jr. married the daughter of one of America's most influential political figures of the early twentieth century, Senator Nelson Aldrich, who for a long time enjoyed almost the same influence in Washington as the country's presidents.

9 Bug Collector

John Rockefeller Jr. left luxurious palaces and villas to his five sons and daughter. In winter, the young Rockefellers lived in New York in a nine-story family mansion. They had their own clinic, special colleges, swimming pools, tennis courts, concert and exhibition halls. The 3,000-acre Rockefeller estate has riding arenas, a velodrome, a half-million-dollar home theater, yachting ponds, and more. The equipment of one game room alone cost the child-loving oil king $520,000.

When the youngest of the brothers (David) grew up, each received at his disposal city mansions, summer villas and other real estate necessary for social life. As for David, who heads the family's financial business today, according to the American press, his only hobby is collecting beetles. There are 40 thousand of them in the collection, David Rockefeller, according to newspapers, always carries with him a bottle for caught insects.

10. But Abramovich is richer

Rockefeller Financial Services now manages $34 billion in assets. Among them are the Vallares oil and gas group, a stake in Johnson & Johnson, Dell, Procter & Gamble and Oracle. The majority of the company's shares are owned by the Rockefeller family. But the personal fortune of David Rockefeller is estimated (according to "Forbes") at only 2.5 billion dollars.

At the same time, personal Russian businessman Forbes estimates Roman Abramovich at 10.2 billion. The Russian is now actively investing in foreign companies. One of the latest major purchases was a 23.3% stake in the British telecommunications group Truphone, which cost £75 million. Experts estimate that Abramovich's art collection is worth at least a billion dollars. In January 2013, he bought a collection of 40 works by Ilya Kabakov, the approximate cost of which is $60 million.

A few years ago, Abramovich became the buyer of a 70-acre estate on the island of St. Barth in the Caribbean. The land on which the estate is located was once owned by David Rockefeller. The cost of Abramovich's new acquisition is $89 million. The estate includes several bungalows with ocean views, tennis courts, swimming pools and dance pavilions.

The Rockefellers were no longer talking to Gorbachev like they were talking to Brezhnev. Not as an equal

The “golden billion” scheme, as it was 30 years ago, is over due to the degradation of the white race, historian and social philosopher Andrey Fursov believes. In an interview with BUSINESS Online, Fursov told whether the recently deceased patriarch of the Rockefeller family has successors, for which the Kennedy family is severely punished for three generations, and why an influential Jewish clan invests in racology and eugenics, which were popular under Hitler.

Andrey Fursov: “The Rockefellers, like most of the world's elite, supporters of reducing the world's population to 2 billion people. And the solution of this problem requires, among other things, serious medical and virological research"

The Rockefellers learned through their channels that London was recreating the British Empire in a new, financially invisible form.

- Andrey Ilyich, after death David Rockefeller, who was the recognized head of his clan, the place of the "chief bourgeois" again became vacant. Who, after David's death, can become the patriarch of the Rockefeller family? And how complex is the clan itself? Is the head of the clan an autocrator or a compromise figure?

“Who will be the next head of the clan, we will soon find out. Like all major financial families, the Rockefeller family always there is a leader. This is not a monarch, not an autocrat, and at the same time not a compromise figure. This is a person who ultimately determines the long-term and integral interests of the family as one of the subjects of the world elite.

David has represented the clan since the mid-1970s after he faded into the background Nelson Rockefeller, former Vice President of the United States. David's nomination was due to the fact that global financialization had begun. The Rockefellers decided that they should be very actively involved in this process and put forward David who dealt with finance. Today, the Rockefeller clan has grown to enormous proportions. it powerful network, which is present in the financial sector, in the oil industry, and in all supranational structures.

- Is there a strict hierarchy and subordination in the Rockefeller clan?

- The Rockefeller clan is numerous and branched out. Sometimes it is even called a heterarchy, i.e. very complex structure, which is characterized simultaneously by the interdependence various elements and at the same time some of their autonomy. For the Rockefellers, this combination is provided by the following structure for organizing their wealth: a family fund, charitable foundations and private family. In other words, there is a basic inalienable property, so the capital of the Rockefellers was not scattered over three or four generations, as is often the case in the West, but is preserved and multiplied.

There are many myths about the Rockefellers. One of the most common is that they, along with some other clans, rule the world. Is this true or is it fiction? What other clans are comparable to the Rockefellers in terms of influence? Or are their competitors only the equally famous Rothschilds?

- About the Rockefellers, however, as well as about the Rothschilds and other large families, a lot of myths have indeed been created. This is understandable: there is not much information. Plus deliberately launched misinformation and the desire of people to look behind the scenes. In the twentieth century, one of the main lines of confrontation at the top of the world was the rivalry between two large clusters of interests, in the foreground of which were Rockefellers and Rothschilds. In the course of two world wars, the group led by the Rockefellers prevailed over the group led by the Rothschilds. First, because it was more connected with industrial capital (during the war era, industrial capital took revenge on finance capital for its defeats in the 19th century). Second, the Rockefellers in the wars sponsored both Anglo-Saxon and German parties to the conflict, increasing their profits.

After the end of the war, the Rothschilds began to prepare a retaliatory strike, and no later than 1967, the Rockefellers learned through their information channels that London was recreating the British Empire in a new - "financially invisible" - form. At the same time, the Rothschilds actively worked with the Soviet leadership, it is no coincidence Moscow People's Bank in the 1960s was one of the most active City banks. The Rockefeller reaction was not long in coming. In the short term, it was a demarche de Gaulle, who demanded that the United States return gold in exchange for dollars. This was one of the factors that in 1971 led to the US abandoning the "gold standard". It cost Charles de Gaulle a career, but these are already “production costs”.

Saving the dollar, and therefore maintaining the position of the Rockefellers, required the dollar to be tied to some other source of liquidity. It was oil, and this operation, again, was not without the very close participation of the Soviet leadership. In response to active actions The Rothschilds in China The Rockefellers took action.

At present, the balance of power between the two clusters of interests has roughly leveled off. Moreover, the top 20-30 families of the world elite are trying not to wage bloody wars, there is a some kind of informal "water truce".

Only upstarts from the second or third hundred of the world's rich who have forgotten their place are severely punished (a classic example is the punishment of a family Kennedy up to three generations). It is indicative that almost all the largest families are represented in all closed supranational structures of world coordination and management such as Bilderberg and Rimsky clubs, Trilateral Commission. Although the initiators of the creation of these structures were the Rockefellers, whose think tank back in 1944 prepared the report "The Study of War and Peace." It determined the trends in the development of the world in the next 25-35 years and formulated the goals of the United States.

Without Brezhnev, the game of creating petrodollars would not have succeeded

- Is it possible to determine that some of the world clans are still the most influential?

- As I said, the balance of power is constantly changing. For example, the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century were marked by the power of the Rothschilds. In addition to them, there were barings and a number of other families. But then the Rockefellers get stronger. This clan rose in two world wars. Incidentally, in the 1920s and 1930s Joseph Stalin he very actively used the contradictions between the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, between the USA and Great Britain, and thanks to this he managed to industrialize in our country. Meanwhile, the British and Americans were very different types and on Adolf Hitler. The Americans wanted him to crush the British Empire, and then Stalin would have finished him off. And the British wanted Hitler to defeat Stalin, and then they themselves would have finished off Hitler. It was a complex combination in which everyone participated. But in the end, the British succeeded in frustrating the American plans, and after active behind-the-scenes negotiations with Rudolf Hess On June 22, 1941, Hitler attacked the Soviet Union. In the same time for no one are the secret of the connection of the Rockefeller structures with the Third Reich.

Under Gorbachev, the processes intensified again, but the Rockefellers spoke to him differently than with Brezhnev

- Obviously, the Rockefellers played a very important role in the fate of our country in the first half of the twentieth century. What explains their interest in Soviet Russia in the postwar period? Why did they meet with Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, what kind of relationship did they have with Mikhail Gorbachev?

- In general, the Rockefellers became interested in Russia at the very beginning of the 20th century because of Baku oil, which competed with their companies. The revolution solved the problem of eliminating the competitor. But in the late 1920s, the director of the Central Bank of England Montague Norman closed the British Empire (25 percent of the world market) from outside world, that is, from the United States. It was an asymmetrical response from the Rothschilds to the Rockefellers. And then The Rockefellers began to actively invest in the Soviet Union and the Third Reich. After a pause in the 1950s, the Rockefellers resumed relations with the USSR, now with the Brezhnev leadership. Without the latter, the game of creating petrodollars would not have succeeded. At Gorbachev processes were activated again, but the Rockefellers were no longer talking to him the way they were talking to him. Brezhnev. That is, not as with an equal partner, but as with a person who could already do certain things. dictate.

– Do the Rockefellers and Rothschilds have any interests in present-day Russia? Which of the Russian oligarchs are supported by these influential families? Who from the ruling elite of our country can be close to them to one degree or another?

– I don’t have an exact answer to this question, there are only guesses. I think that there must be several Russian oligarchs behind whom are the de facto Rothschilds, Rockefellers and, most likely, someone else.

– Do these clans have any relationship with the current descendants of the Romanov family? Is it by chance that the theme of the monarchy and the Russian succession to the throne is being actively raised in Russia today? What role did the Rockefellers, along with the House of Romanov, play in the creation of the Federal Reserve System?

- The theme of the monarchy is awakened regardless of this. And the people who represent themselves Romanovs, a actually Hohenzollern, such marginal figures that the Rockefellers will hardly deal with them. They need serious counterparties. The information thrown in that the Romanovs played a big role in the creation of the Fed is, I think, a significant exaggeration.

- What is the relationship between the Rockefellers and the ruling clans of the USA? For example, it is known that Bill Clinton has been a member of the Bilderberg Club since 1991. Why did the Rockefellers let the Clintons lose the recent US elections?

– This once again suggests that they are not omnipotent. Very often there are equilibrium situations that are poorly controlled. But you don't have to worry about the Rockefellers. They, for example, did not really want to win Richard Nixon. But he won, so the Rockefellers beat him a large number their people and conditions. Concerning Hillary Clinton, then she made her entire career with the help of the Rockefellers. And about Bill Clinton and there were persistent rumors that he was an illegitimate son Winthrop Rockefeller. Like it or not, we do not know. But the important thing is that the Clintons are from the Rockefeller cluster but this time they lost. Something tells me that under the conditions that Trump put the American elite, a large part of the exhibited by the Rockefellers. And he will have to fulfill these conditions, despite all the support from the Rothschilds, who moved him in the same way as Brexit. Thus, it can be stated that at present a delicate balance has developed between the main clans in the world system and no one wants to make waves and rock the boat. Otherwise it will cost more.

Previously, it was assumed that the “golden billion” were white Europeans. But now there are only 8 percent of whites left in the world.

- There is an opinion that the Rockefellers and Rothschilds are brought to the fore as a kind of cover. But in fact, the same Baruchs who are in the shadows are more influential.

- At the clan Barukhov really high status. If we take the Jewish world, it is usually said that it is divided into two groups: Ashkenazi(these are Eastern European Jews) and Sephardim(Jews of Spanish origin). Of the 12 million Jews, according to official statistics, 10 million are Ashkenazi and 2 million are Sephardi. But there is another group. According to various estimates, there are from 150 to 300 thousand. These are the so-called Roman Jews who moved from Palestine to Rome in the 1st-3rd centuries AD, and this is the super-elite. Baruchi belong to this group. And, of course, they are very influential.

But the Rockefellers are no cover either. They occupy their niche, which is constantly expanding. Their strength is not only in money. From the end of the 19th century, the clan began to invest very seriously in science and the US university environment. A significant part of the American political, military, intelligence and scientific-technical establishment either come from the scientific and university structures supervised by the Rockefellers, or are associated with them. The most active Rockefellers invested in areas such as medicine, biology, eugenics, virology, racology. Here we see some trends that in the late 1940s, due to the prevalence of their in the Third Reich were compromised. But these are precisely the areas that the Rockefellers sponsored in America and which still have not gone anywhere, but simply gone into the shadows. Moreover, the Rockefellers, like most of the world's elite, are big supporters of reducing the world's population to 2 billion people. The solution to this problem requires, among other things, serious medical and virological research.

– Birth control, reduction of the world population, prevention ecological disaster and exhaustion natural resources- which of these projects of David Rockefeller are applicable in practice? Whom, in your opinion, was he more of a utopian or a pragmatist?

– When it comes to long-term historical projects, at a certain level of decision-making, the line between pragmatics and utopia very often blurs. Who was, for example , Karl Marx- pragmatist or utopian? On the one hand, a utopian. But on the other hand, both in the anti-capitalist Soviet Union and in the capitalist West, many of his ideas were implemented. Ideologist of mondialism Jacques Attali generally considers the main merit of Marx to be the idea of ​​a world government.

During the so-called Student Revolution in France (actually - special operations to overthrow de Gaulle) in 1968 was the slogan: "Be realistic, demand the impossible." Much of what Rockefeller said also seems utopian. For example, the reduction of the world's population. But from the point of view tomorrow this may turn out to be pure pragmatics, because for the world's top, reducing the world's population is an imperative. Otherwise, they will face a problem worse than the migration crisis in Europe.

– David Rockefeller wanted to make the planet more suitable for the life of the “golden billion”. Is there anything in common in his aspirations with floating cities, the first of which the United States is going to build in two or three years?

– Floating cities are no longer for the “golden billion”. What do we see today? The degree of population of the United States by immigrants from Hispanics, and Europe by immigrants from Africa and the Middle East is such that there will be no "golden billion". Previously, it was assumed that the "golden billion" is white Europeans. But now in the world of white people only 8% left. it the only race that is declining in numbers. In addition, there are very serious problems that the West does not like to talk about, but they do exist. it degradation of white Europeans who live in comfortable conditions. Over the past century, as experts note, they have seen a decrease in brain volume. I'm not even talking about the softening of the will, the inability to resist strangers. Well-fed, rich people are not only not the engines of progress, but they are not able to protect themselves. Another 15-20 years will pass, and we will get the next conflict in Europe. One side - well-fed elderly Europeans who said goodbye to their Christianity and generally do not believe in anything, on the other hand - young aggressive people from Africa and the Middle East who have their own faith, for which they are able to kill. And most importantly, for them, Europeans are alien biological material that needs to be destroyed.

I remember an interview with one of the Palestinian leaders. Until 1968, he was a supporter of leftist views, a Marxist. When the events of 1968 began in Paris, he rushed to France, believing that he would find high spirituality there. As a result, he was shocked by the degree of moral decline of the young French leftists and therefore turned towards Islam.

The scheme of the "golden billion" in the form in which it was presented 30 years ago is over. This concept will no longer be realized, contrary to the mantras of simpletons like Francis Fukuyama(American philosopher who proclaimed the “end of history” due to the widespread triumph of democratic values ​​- ed.). I classify these mantras as a syndrome Sidonia Apollinaria. There was a Roman poet and bishop of Clermont who lived in the 5th century AD. He wrote to his friend something like: “We live in a wonderful time, I am sitting by the pool, a dragonfly hovered over the smooth surface of the water. This beautiful world will last forever." Just a few years later Odoacer destroyed Rome. But floating cities are a reality. But they are only meant for half a million of the world's top. If they manage to launch the first ship in 2019, we'll see what happens next. By the way, by the irony of history, the schemes of these cities are the same that Soviet engineers developed at the turn of the 50s - 60s of the last century.

- And why are the Rockefellers far from the first places in the Forbes list? Does this indicate a partial loss of their influence? Or is their current influence not converted into dollars?

– Forbes List, as Galich sang, “this, Red, is all for the public,” that is, for completely naive people. Well, who's there? Bill Gates, Warren Buffett ... This is the middle layer of billionaires, but not the top. These are the owners some 60 - 70 billion. Forbes cites individual fortunes, which are a snag from the very beginning, because it is necessary to measure by family wealth. And here are other champions. For example, the Rothschilds, according to serious estimates, somewhere 3.2 trillion dollars, the Rockefellers have about 2.5 trillion. It doesn't matter that David himself had 3 billion. We have oligarchs with much more money, who yesterday jumped out of the gateway and on them recorded former state property. The main wealth is family.

However, money is not everything. As said main character novel by Robert Penn Warren Willie Stark, dollars are good up to a certain limit. And then everything is decided by the government. And very often in the sphere of intellect and ideas. So the influence of the Rockefellers is due not only to dollars, but also to the weight that they have acquired in the university and scientific environment and in the degree of control over this environment. It must be remembered that the world is matter, energy and information. And in this triangle, one of the corners very often comes to the fore. Moreover, it is not always matter and energy. Very often it is information. And, of course, those who own it, own the world. The Rockefellers are one of them.